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N.Y. Still Pursues Case Against Whistle-Blower

nytimes.com - ALBANY — The Cuomo administration is continuing to pursue a two-year-old disciplinary case against Jeffrey Monsour, a state employee at the Office for People With Developmental Disabilities who has...

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Lessons from High-Performing Countries

ed.gov - I welcome this opportunity to reflect on what the United States can learn from the nations with the best-performing education systems. My thanks to Marc Tucker and the National Center on Education ...

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New rules make kindergarten count for more

palmbeachpost.com - By Allison RossPalm Beach Post Staff WriterUpdated: 11:53 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 20, 2011 Posted: 10:58 p.m. Friday, Aug. 19, 2011Kindergarten is getting tougher this year.Counting to 20 and dabbling ...

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The school reform deniers | The Great Debate

blogs.reuters.com - By Steven BrillAll opinions expressed are his own. Every year I tell students in a journalism seminar I teach about the junior reporter for The American Lawyer – the magazine I founded and edited –...

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Protections against institutional cheating in NYC schools

nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com - Spurred by reports of widespread cheating on standardized tests in Atlanta; Washington, DC; Los Angeles; Pennsylvania; and elsewhere, New York State Education Commissioner John King announced las...

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A depressing start to the school year

chron.com - Monday marks the first day of school for more than 200,000 children in the Houston Independent School District. Although our children are enjoying a fresh start, recent state budget cuts and loomin...

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Koch responds to Buffett: "Take your shared sacrifice and ..."

schoolingintheownershipsociety.blogspot.com - Charles Koch, head of the massive petrochemical, manufacturing, and commodity speculating Koch Industries corporation, has responded to Warren Buffett's call for shared sacrifice:“No Thanks.” In a ...

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GE moving X-ray business to China

articles.boston.com - GE Healthcare, also the world’s biggest maker of magnetic resonance imaging and cardiac tomography scanners, got about $1.1 billion of its $16.9 billion in sales from China last year.The X-ray busi...

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Create a state bank as a public utility

sacramentopa.blogspot.com - Senator Darrell Steinberg, I encourage you to use your leadership position in the Senate to assist in passing AB 750, the bill to study the establishment of a California Trust (bank) as ...

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Gay student's slaying: Defense rests in murder trial

latimesblogs.latimes.com - Seven weeks after the start of his murder trial for the fatal shooting of a 15-year-old gay classmate, Brandon McInerney turned down his chance to testify.Defense lawyers rested their case Monday w...

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Jerry Leiber, Prolific Writer of 1950s Hits, Dies at 78

nytimes.com - Jerry Leiber, the lyricist who, with his partner, Mike Stoller, wrote some of the most enduring classics in the history of rock ’n’ roll, including “Hound Dog,” “Yakety Yak,” “Stand By Me” and “On ...

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Diez consejos para adaptarse a una escuela nueva

vidayfamilia.univision.com - Cuando se acerca el primer día de la escuela, empieza hablar con tu niño sobre sus expectativas, esperanzas y preocupaciones para el año que viene. - Thinkstock LLC/Picture Quest VIDEO Cómo ser un ...

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The school reform deniers | The Great Debate

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    NYC Educator: Cheat Proudly

    NYC Educator: Cheat Proudly

    Cheat Proudly

    by NYC Educator
    There are allegations that cheating is up in NYC, and the only surprise is that anyone is surprised. When you place a gun to someone's head to encourage a certain sort of behavior, you are likely to elicit that target one way or another. If test scores don't go up, we close your school and the principal can go fish. The teachers become wandering subs, going from classroom to classroom in the hope we can discourage them enough to quit of their own volition.

    So really, what can they expect? Maybe the next time we give a test, we allow the students to help one another. Maybe we leave a few highlighted review
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    The First Day

    The First Day

    The First Day

    by Sam

    This morning, I witnessed the start of a new school year at two very different buildings – a neighborhood public school that first opened its doors in 1924, and a public charter school that was opening its doors for the very first time.

    I still get back-to-school butterflies each time a new year begins. There’s just something uniquely beautiful, and precarious, about the first day a group of children come together under one roof. The promise of what lies ahead feels like an almost unbearable ache – the weight of the work to be done being so great, and so unsteady.

    By 7:00am this morning, there were still no children under the charter school’s roof — the school day didn’t

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    City Reports Increase in Allegations of Cheating by Educators - NYTimes.com

    City Reports Increase in Allegations of Cheating by Educators - NYTimes.com

    Under Bloomberg, a Sharp Rise in Accusations of Cheating by Educators

    Raymond McCrea Jones/The New York Times

    Richard J. Condon, special commissioner of investigation, attributed the rise to the expansion of the school system and to the higher stakes attached to standardized tests and classroom grades.

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    Published: August 22, 2011

    Annual allegations of test-tampering and grade-changing by educators have more than tripled since Mayor Michael R. Bloombergtook control of New York City’s school system, outpacing a broader increase in complaints of adult misconduct in schools during the same period, according to the special commissioner of investigation.

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    The commissioner, Richard J. Condon, attributed the rise both to the expansion of the school system — its budget has more than doubled, to $24 billion from $11.5 billion when he took office in 2002, and the number of schools has grown to

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    Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… - The Best Reflective Posts I’ve Written About My Teaching Practice In 2011 — So Far

    Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… - The Best Reflective Posts I’ve Written About My Teaching Practice In 2011 — So Far

    Looking For More “Hot Spot” EFL Interviews Over the past several months, I’ve done eleven of what I’m calling “hot spot interviews” with English teachers in different parts of the world — places where there are natural disasters, political upheavals, etc. They’ve been pretty popular with ...

    The Best Reflective Posts I’ve Written About My Teaching Practice In 2011 — So Far I usually just do a year-end list on this topic and on many others, but it gets a little crazy having to review all of my zillion posts at once. So, to make it easier for me — and perhaps, to make it a little more useful to readers — I’m going to ...
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    How Rupert Murdoch’s Money for John Kasich is Putting Ohio Back Play for Obama | Scathing Purple Musings

    How Rupert Murdoch’s Money for John Kasich is Putting Ohio Back Play for Obama | Scathing Purple Musings

    How Rupert Murdoch’s Money for John Kasich is Putting Ohio Back Play for Obama

    by Bob Sikes

    If you attempt to take the political temperature of a state and want to make a serious assessment of the climate, you often have to consider the source. AlterNet would admit to being leftward leaning and to being biased toward Democrats. But AlterNet, like parallel rightward leaning sites report news even while engaging in it’s genre. In a piece focused on Ohio governor John Kasich’s growing, organized opposition from labor, Sarah Jaffe reveals how much financial support that Kasich has received from media tycoon Rupert Murdoch.

    One Kasich supporter who is well-known is Rupert
    Murdoch    ; before he took office, Kasich had a weekend show on Fox News, “From
    the Heartland,” and he’s been a frequent guest on the network as a candidate and
    as governor. Additionally, Murdoch personally donated $10,000 to Kasich’s
    campaign, and Murdoch’s News Corp donated $1 million to the Republican Governors

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    Education Week: #Parents Involvement

    Education Week: Parent Involvement

    PARENT INVOLVEMENT

    The latest news on parent involvement in education, including archives and commentary.

    Ben Austin, the executive director of Parent Revolution, which supported a controversial charter petition in Compton, Calif., hugs parent Patricia Quintero, last year. —Al Seib/Los Angeles Times/AP-File
    Momentum Stalls for 'Parent Trigger' Proposals
    Numerous states this year have introduced parent-trigger proposals, which would allow parents the opportunity to restructure or close academically struggling traditional public schools or convert them to charters. Most have stalled or died.
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    Spotlight on Parent Involvement


    Research indicates that students benefit when their parents are engaged in their learning and schools. This Spotlight explores how to encourage meaningful home-school connections.

    K-12, PARENTS, AND THE PUBLIC BLOG

    12/08 06:53 pm | Education Engagement: Parting Thoughts| While staffing a table at a "family empowerment" fair at my son's school last month, I thought: These are the rewards and limitations of parent and community engagement in ...

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    Census: Parents Reading More With Their Children
    Experts says the growth in parent engagement may lead to academic payoffs for children.
    August 19, 2011 - Education Week
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    New Law Spares Homeschoolers from Bureaucracy of Old Laws
    The law does away with a requirement that the superintendent visit each homeschool home every year, among other things.
    August 17, 2011 - McClatchy-Tribune
    Kids Count Report: Child Poverty Up in 38 States
    The Annie E. Casey Foundation found 14.7 million children, 20 percent, lived in low-income homes in 2009, a 2.5 million increase from 2000.
    August 17, 2011 - AP
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    Chicago Community Group Breaks Down Home-School Barriers
    With its grassroots parent-mentor program, Chicago's Logan Square Neighborhood Association is empowering immigrant parents and engaging them in their children's schooling.
    August 15, 2011 - Education Week
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    Parents Face Sticker Shock at Enrollment–in Public Schools
    The so-called course or lab fees can range from $10 or $20 to more than $100 per class, depending on the school, records show, adding to the rising cost of a public school education in the Chicago region.
    August 8, 2011 - McClatchy-Tribune
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    COMMENTARY
    Confronting Gender Anxiety
    Gender stereotypes can stifle children cognitively and emotionally, but raising a gender-neutral child is not the answer, write Caryl Rivers and Rosalind C. Barnett.
    August 5, 2011 - Education Week
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    Statistics Show More Grandparents Caring for Grandchildren
    With a growing number of school-age children living with their grandparents, grandparents are seeking a more prominent role in schools.
    August 3, 2011 - Education Week
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    Conn. Parents Ask Courts to Block Schools' Takeover
    On Wednesday, a group of Bridgeport parents asked a Superior Court judge to halt the replacement of the city's school board by state officials.
    July 14, 2011 - McClatchy-Tribune
    Frustrated Educators Aim to Build Grassroots Movement
    Organizers of the Washington march say U.S. policymakers are moving in the wrong direction to bring about school improvement.
    June 14, 2011 - Education Week
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    Legislative Momentum Stalls for 'Parent Trigger' Proposals
    The concept proves intriguing, but logistics and opposition lead many state lawmakers to move slowly.
    June 14, 2011 - Education Week
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    Enough reports, studies and blueprints: It’s time to act on them | Thoughts on Public Education

    Enough reports, studies and blueprints: It’s time to act on them | Thoughts on Public Education

    Offering freshmen a step up to science - by John Fensterwald - Educated Guess

    by John Fensterwald - Educated Guess
    Trustees of East Side Union High School District in San Jose voted earlier this year to make the 15 courses required for admission to a four-year state university the district’s standard curriculum. That was the easy part. Preparing and guiding the predominantly low-income students in the state’s second largest high school district to succeed with higher standards [...]


    Enough reports, studies and blueprints: It’s time to act on them - by Crystal Brown

    by Crystal Brown
    Public schools in California are in a state of crisis and our students are suffering the consequences. Our children deserve and require more attention, resources and support. While there has been no shortage of plans and policies for what our schools need, there seems to be a lack of political will to actually [...]
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    Rethinking a flawed education agenda - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

    Rethinking a flawed education agenda - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

    Rethinking a flawed education agenda

    by Valerie Strauss

    This was written by Larry Lee, who led the 2009 study entitled Lessons Learned from Rural Schools , a look at 10 high-performing, high-poverty rural schools in Alabama. Lee’s most recent position was director of the Center for Rural Alabama, and he served as head of the West Alabama Economic Development Authority, the Covington County Economic Development Commission and the Southeast Alabama Regional Planning & Development Commission. Lee is chairman of the board of the Alabama Asset Building Coalition and an advisory board member of HIPPY Alabama, an early childhood learning program. He frequently writes about education issues for state newspapers.

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    School rules in 1911: What do you recognize?

    by Valerie Strauss

    As the new school year starts, I thought it would be fun (admittedly I sometimes have an odd view of fun) to look back at how school districts operated a century ago.

    I found a book on line entitled: “REVISED SCHOOL LAWS AND REVISED RULES AND REGULATIONS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION OF THE TERRITORY OF HAWAII 1911.”

    Some of the laws, rules and regulations in the territory that would become the home state of President Barack Obama will seem familiar. School districts had superintendents and education boards with commissioners. Kids were required to go school.

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    Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Reported test cheating tripled under Bloomberg

    Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Reported test cheating tripled under Bloomberg

    Reported test cheating tripled under Bloomberg

    Annual allegations of test-tampering and grade-changing by educators have more than tripled since Mayor Bloomberg took control of New York City’s school system. Top bureaucrats, Wolcott and Polakow-Suransky go into spin mode.
    “People are reporting things, that’s fine; we want people to report things,” Mr. Walcott said. But, he added, “people could be reporting for real and not necessarily real
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    High Tech Blinders about Students and Purposes of Schooling | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice

    High Tech Blinders about Students and Purposes of Schooling | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice

    High Tech Blinders about Students and Purposes of Schooling

    by larrycuban

    Perceptions of Student in 21st Century

    The cartoon was originally run to satirize many professors’ narrow view of doctoral students as receptacles of information–note I did not say knowledge–whose single purpose in life was doing research. The student asinformation processing unit (IPU). If one aim of satire is to get people to laugh and then get them to think by inquiring further about what they are laughing about, then the cartoon fits–especially if I broaden its target to include K-12 schools and replace “most professors” with “most school reformers.”

    Ardent reformers, including the current and past U.S. Presidents and their appointees, are determined in getting

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